VIDEO. SpaceX is flying a new prototype of its future rocket to Mars

The last prototype, SN5, was slowly managing to remain right, has reached an altitude of indeterminate and then fell back to land in a cloud of dust.

SpaceX has accomplished Tuesday in Texas a flight for less than a minute of the biggest prototype ever tested in the future rocket Starship with which the company wants to one day colonize Mars. "Mars is starting to become credible," tweeted the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, in response to a fan.

The prototype Starship is, at this stage, very coarse : it is a large metal cylinder, built in a few weeks by teams of SpaceX on the coast of texas, Boca Chica, and is smaller than the future rocket. Several prototypes have exploded during tests on the ground, in a process borne of trial and error and learning by error.

Good control of the trajectory

According to images broadcast on Tuesday by several experts in the space, including @NASASpaceflight, the latest prototype, SN5, was slowly managing to remain right, has reached an altitude of indeterminate and then fell back to land in a cloud of dust, demonstrating a good control of the trajectory.

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"once the smoke dissipated, she stood there majestically, after a flight of 150 meters ! Congratulations, SpaceX", has tweeted the most senior Nasa scientist, Thomas Zurbuchen. An altitude of 150 metres had to be initially attained during this "bond", but SpaceX has not confirmed any detail of the volume

By 2019, a prototype previous, Starhopper, smaller, had soared to 150 meters of altitude and had returned to ask. The Starship envisioned by Elon Musk will measure 120 metres in height and shall be able to land vertically on Mars.

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Date Of Update: 06 August 2020, 10:58